Bristlenose Plecos

[hdbikersbabe]

Hello everyone,

I am hoping to pick your brains. lol I purchased several BN plecos and I am concerned they are NOT what I was told. I am looking for help from the experts (which is why I'm here)

These two pictures were to be of a regular female BN




This one is to be a female green dragon BN. The lady I purchased them from swears up and down these two green dragons are a mated pair. I personally have never seen a BN female with bristles like this. She said she's had females that have full beards before.


This is the male green dragon, the other half to the above female.

[jvision]

The first fish looks like a clown pleco (Panaque maccus); the rest are BN Plecos. I'm not really sure what "green dragon" is, but I'd say that you definitely have a pair of BNs - mature females often have bristles around the end of their nose, but never up their face like a male.

[Silurus]

Those aren't green dragon bristlenose, just the regular

common bristlenose catfish

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Green dragon bristlenoses are explained here.

[.Plecomania.]

yeah the first pic is not a BN pleco. second pic is a female BN pleco and the last two pics are males. the third pic has bristles up in the face area so not female. just a later developing male.

as mentioned they are not green dragons, just regular BNs. still really nice plecos. i used to breed them and am now keeping a pair of albinos that i raised from a spawn of browns.

[hdbikersbabe]

I raise Albino and Browns and wanted to expand. We sell them to the LFS and can't keep them stocked so I was branching out. This is what I was to have purchased.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161121258786?ss ... 1497.l2649

Needless to say I'm not very happy.

I thank you guys for all of your help.

[.Plecomania.]

from the ebay pics it looks like it might be a female but from your pics it looks like a male so it could be either one. I'd buy from aquabid and not ebay on more expensive plecs like this.

i am almost 100% those are not green dragon as advertised. the blurry photos just dramatize the greenish coloring of regular BNs. green dragons do not have spots like that.